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Hannah Choiniere, RACC Streams Project high school participant and Missisquoi Valley Union High School student, won several prizes for her research poster titled "Can buffer strips reduce the effects of nutrient runoff from fields on water quality in Vermont?"

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New WA regional director for Parsons Brinckerhoff
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Parsons Brinckerhoff ANZ has appointed Andrew Schroth – an internal appointee – as its new regional director, Western Australia. Guy Templeton, Parsons Brinckerhoff president and chief operating officer Asia-Pacific, said that Mr Schroth will be ...

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New WA regional director for Parsons Brinckerhoff
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Parsons Brinckerhoff ANZ has appointed Andrew Schroth – an internal appointee – as its new regional director, Western Australia. Guy Templeton, Parsons Brinckerhoff president and chief operating officer Asia-Pacific, said that Mr Schroth will be ...

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New WA regional director for Parsons Brinckerhoff
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Parsons Brinckerhoff ANZ has appointed Andrew Schroth – an internal appointee – as its new regional director, Western Australia. Guy Templeton, Parsons Brinckerhoff president and chief operating officer Asia-Pacific, said that Mr Schroth will be ...

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New WA regional director for Parsons Brinckerhoff
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Parsons Brinckerhoff ANZ has appointed Andrew Schroth – an internal appointee – as its new regional director, Western Australia. Guy Templeton, Parsons Brinckerhoff president and chief operating officer Asia-Pacific, said that Mr Schroth will be ...

New WA regional director for Parsons Brinckerhoff  Spatial Source

Obituary: Clark, Gary Michael "9Er"  The Spokesman Review

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Governor's Institutes of VT and NKAF Team Up to Deliver Astrophotography to ...
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The Northeast Kingdom Astronomy Foundation (NKAF) was honored to teach at a Governor's Institutes of Vermont Winter Weekend in February at Goddard College. The astrophotography immersion weekend helped GIV reach its goal of delivering in-depth ...

Many members of the RACC team attended and presented at the New England Association of Environmental Biologists (NEAEB) 38th annual conference, held in Burlington, Vermont this past March 26th through the 28th. The conference draws participants from all New England State environmental departments, the Federal government, professionals from NGOs, other public/private groups, and academia, to present, share, and discuss topics of environmental protection, conversation, and water resources management. Among those that presented their research were RACC members Peter Isles, Chris Koliba, Asim Zia, Kristen Underwood, Declan McCabe, Bob Genter, YaoYang Xu, and Scott Hamshaw. Other contributors included Andrew Schroth and past EPSCoR RACC undergraduate interns, Anne Burnham and Hannah Kittler, and CWDD Technician Katie Chang. An opening plenary on Climate Change was given by Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, the Vermont State Climatologist. Stakeholder, Dr. Curt Stager, from Paul Smith's College also participated in the workshop.

The Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) group, led by Dr. Asim Zia, met on March 19, 2014 with the whole group to share progress and discuss next steps towards meeting milestones for the upcoming year.

Sarah Coleman, a graduate student in the Policy & Governance RACC group, visited the Vermont State House to help inform legislators about the crowd sourcing DELPHI survey that seeks input on the the health of the Lake Champlain Basin. Lindsay Wieland, new Director of the VT EPSCoR Center for Workforce Development at Saint Michael's College, Patrick Clemins, VT EPSCoR Cyber Specialist and Lillian Gamache, Project Coordinator for VT EPSCoR also attended and shared information with legislators about VT EPSCoR.

Dr. Judith Van Houten was an invited Roundtable Discussion Leader at the Invention 2 Venture Conference on April 3, 2014 at the University of Vermont. Dr. Patrick Clemins also attended and provided information about the VT EPSCoR SBIR Phase (0) program.

Record attendance capped off the research year at the VT EPSCoR Center for Workforce Development and Diversity (CWDD) 6th annual Student Research Symposium on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at the Sheraton Hotel in Burlington, VT.

Over 190 persons attended the symposium which featured 44 high school students representing 18 Vermont school districts, and 3 districts outside Vermont including from as far away as Puerto Rico, in addition to 42 undergraduate students from nine Vermont colleges including the Community College of Vermont, two universities in Puerto Rico, University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Texas A&M University. All of these students conducted research as a part of the Research on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Lake Champlain Basin: New Understanding through Complex Systems (RACC) program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Photos from the 6th Annual Vermont EPSCoR Student Research Symposium have been posted to Facebook.

The UVM Alumni Association has named Donna Rizzo, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, winner of the 2014 George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award.

The annual award honors full time faculty for excellence in teaching and advising, for their ability to inspire students and have a lasting influence on their lives and for their positive impact on campus life beyond the classroom. Dozens of faculty, alumni and students wrote in support of her nomination.

Rizzo received her doctorate from UVM in 1994 and has been in a tenure-track faculty position since 2002. She has received more than $8 million in research funding and was recently named to the Dorothean Chair in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, established by Stuart “Red” Martin in honor of his wife, Dorothy, which honors faculty whose work promises to advance the field, who are doing major scholarly work with graduate students, and who teach basic engineering to undergraduates.

Pakistani expatriates recall national heroes' commitment
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... Asim Zia from BDM, Rajab Silsilah Group; Shaikh Luqman; Aziz Ahmed; Mujeeb Hasan; Qari Asif; Amanatullah; Rasheed Kashmiri; Ahmed Mehroom; Amin Najmi; Aseem Hanif; Shariq Islam; Abdulrahman Baig; Musarrat Khalil; and Chaudhry Yusuf Ibrahim ...

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As State Diversifies, Texas Educators Grab The Bull By The Horns
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It's up to school district superintendent Brian Woods to try to manage the staggering growth. "It's a little scary. It's one of those things that wakes you up at 3:30 in the morning," Woods says. "How are we managing this? And are we doing the things ...

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Rizzo Receives 2014 Kidder Award  The University of Vermont

Photos: A Race Defined by Snow Finds Itself With Little (Published ...  The New York Times

Had enough of this weather yet, Vermont?
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University of Vermont geography professor and state climatologist Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux suggests we take a good, long look at Lake Champlain, ice-bound for the first time in seven years. “Now, let's extend our view forward,” she said recently ...

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